Trump dismisses Defense Secretary Mark Esper

the president donald trump announced Monday at Twitter who has sacked Defense Secretary Mark Esper, and that Christopher Miller, who is the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, will become acting secretary “with immediate effect.”

the President sacked Esper two days after his Democratic opponent Joe Biden was screened as the winner of the presidential election, a conclusion that Asset refused to accept.
The relationship Every time more Esper’s time with Trump

prompted him to prepare a resignation letter weeks ago, an attempt to forge a gracious exit in the widely anticipated case that the President

Esper had been on shaky ground with the White House for months, a rift that deepened after she said in June that she did not support the use of active-duty troops to quell the protests

large-scale across America triggered by the death of George Floyd at the hands of the police.

Esper He also said military forces should only be used in a law enforcement role as a last resort.

Your comments from the meeting room Pentagon they were seen by many as an effort to distance themselves from Trump’s threats to deploy the military to enforce order in the streets of American cities and have been overlooked in the White House, several people familiar with the matter said.

According to various administration officials, White House sentiment about Esper had been bitter for some time, as Trump and National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien felt he was not fully committed to the president’s vision for the military.

During months, Trump and O’Brien had been frustrated with Esper’s tendency to avoid offering an outright defense of the president or his policies, administration officials said.

In private, Asset He had expressed his frustration with Esper for months, speaking about him during a trip to Camp David earlier this year, according to multiple sources.

Trump also publicly criticized the Pentagon leadership in September, accusing it of seeking to wage wars to increase profits for defense contractors. An angry Esper called White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to complain, defense officials said.

the The Senate voted 90-8 in July 2019 to confirm Esper, making him the second secretary of defense confirmed by the Senate. He followed James Mattis, who resigned in December 2018 following Trump’s decision to withdraw from Syria amid fighting with Daesh, abandoning Kurdish allies and withdrawing US troops from the war-torn country.